“Religious Freedom, Victim Narratives, and the Need for Spiritual Self-Determination”

“Our society has become so blinded by its quest to redress wrongful discrimination against one class of people that it is now in danger of creating another victimized class: people of faith, like you and me.” In the context of the current urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, these words by Elder Rasband from 2015 can read as particularly jarring. They imply that social justice is in opposition to the cause of faith, and that the gains of one constitute the losses of another. The desire to cast oneself as the virtuous sufferer rather than the unrighteous oppressor is an […]

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